NFL Rumors: Bills Making Trade Calls About Star Wide Receiver

Buffalo Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott looks on from the sidelines during 2025 game.

The Buffalo Bills are working the phones, and yes, Chris Olave is near the top of the list, if not at the top of the list. 

Multiple reports say Buffalo placed formal calls to the New Orleans Saints to check the price on the 25-year-old star, exactly the kind of route-winning, field-stretcher Josh Allen has been missing since the room thinned out. 

League buzz still leans toward the Saints keeping their top receiver, but the Bills aren’t treating that as a stop sign so much as an opening bid.

Why Buffalo is calling on Chris Olave

You can see the fit from a mile away. 

Olave’s clean separators, deep-shot juice, and steady volume would immediately lift a passing game that’s been leaning hard on Khalil Shakir and Dalton Kincaid. 

He’s under team control through 2026, which makes the contract side easy for a contender. That control also makes the price steep, probably a first or high second at minimum, but when you’re chasing the Kansas City Chiefs in January, you pay for difference-makers.

If the Saints hold firm: Bills’ WR Plan B

New Orleans has told teams they expect to keep Olave, and there’s even talk of an extension. 

So Buffalo is widening the net. They’ve made calls on Jakobi Meyers, who brings chain-moving reliability out of the slot, though the Las Vegas Raiders have set a high price. If New Orleans won’t budge, expect Brandon Beane to pivot fast, because time is really running out.

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